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Sandiacre

Town

Town in Erewash, East Midlands.

Sandiacre is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sandiacre add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 31% of people in Sandiacre live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£210,000
Joint 275th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
9,373
195th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
31%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Sandiacre compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

SandiacreMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Sandiacre is £210,000.
£210,00032nd cheapest
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Sandiacre is 9,373.
9,37320th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. Sandiacre is 31.0%.
31%30th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Sandiacre is 97.7%.
97.7%joint 25th highest

Is Sandiacre safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sandiacre at a rate of 77.1 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sandiacre.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (311), anti-social behaviour (141) and other crime (134).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sandiacre was 80.9 per 1,000 people.

Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.

Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.

Deprivation in Sandiacre, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sandiacre has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Sandiacre

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Erewash 008B1,62479.8 per 1,000798.1%
Erewash 008C1,588115.0 per 1,000297.5%
Erewash 008D1,911110.1 per 1,000496.3%
Erewash 008E1,15135.5 per 1,00010100.0%
Erewash 008F1,42852.0 per 1,000796.0%
Erewash 010E1,42051.9 per 1,000899.2%

Your MP

As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Sandiacre1

Middle areas in Sandiacre1

Towns near Sandiacre6

Sandiacre in brief

Sandiacre is a town in Erewash, East Midlands.

About 9,575 people lived in Sandiacre in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 141 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 77.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Sandiacre was £210,000 in 2025.

Sandiacre had 9,373 usual residents at the census.

About 31% of people in Sandiacre live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Sandiacre, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.